University of North Florida 2015 Outdoor Track & Field Home Meets The University of North Florida Track & Field program is proud to announce the home schedule for the 2015 season. All of our meets will be held at the 9400 seat Hodges Stadium Track & Field facility, which is one of the few IAAF Class II facilities in the United States. Hodges Stadium boasts a 9 lane Mondotrack SX surface with full markings for all NCAA and IAAF events, including the ability to run directional events in either direction on either straight. All field event areas are within the stadium, including 4 horizontal jump pits, 8 pole vault locations, and multiple areas for each throwing event. To round out the package, the facility includes a full 400m, 3 lane warm-‐-‐-‐up track and brand new IAAF certified equipment provided by UCS. A second long throws area and 2 additional shot put areas with permanent, gravel sectors. The University of North Florida is located on the south side of Jacksonville, approximately 8 miles from some of the most beautiful beaches in northeast Florida. The university sits on a nature preserve with miles of trails for running and a multitude of shopping and dining options at Town Center only 1-‐-‐-‐1/2 miles from campus. EVENTS: ▪ Friday-‐-‐-‐Saturday March 27-‐-‐-‐28, 2015 – UNF Spring Break Invitational-‐-‐-‐ University / High School Divisions ▪ Friday, April 10, 2015 – North Florida Twilight -‐-‐-‐ University ▪ Friday, May 8, 2015 – U N F East Region Preview – University ENTRIES: ▪ All c o l l e g i a t e team entries will be done online at www.directathletics.com. High School will use FLRunners. ▪ Unattached athletes must enter via Direct Athletics. (Entries will not be confirmed as accepted until the performance sheets are posted the week of the meet.) ▪ UNF has a NO REFUND policy under any circumstance. ▪ No unattached athletes may compete in high school events. ▪ DEADLINE: All entries are due at 11:59pm the Monday before each meet. ▪ Visiting team information: 2015 UNF Visitor's Guide FEES: ▪ HS-‐-‐-‐ $100/gender or $20/athlete, whichever is smaller. Entry fees must be paid at packet pick-‐-‐-‐up, or mailed to UNF 7 days before the meet. ▪ Univ-‐-‐-‐ $300/gender or $25/athlete, whichever is smaller. Entry fees must be paid at packet pick-‐-‐-‐up, or mailed to UNF 7 days before the meet. ▪ Unattached Athletes-‐-‐-‐ $25 (Entries will not be confirmed as accepted until the performance sheets are posted the week of the meet.) ▪ Make checks payable to: UNF Track & Field c/o UNF Athletics – Track & Field University of North Florida 1 U NF Drive Jacksonville, FL 32224 ENTRY LIMITS: ▪ ▪ University-‐-‐-‐ There is no limit to the number of athletes per event. HS-‐-‐-‐ Three per running events and 2 per field events and one relay team per event. SPIKES: Only ¼ in pyramids will be allowed on the track and runway surfaces. No needles or Christmas tree spikes. GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ▪ PACKET PICK-‐-‐-‐UP Team/Individual packets will be available from the packet pick-‐-‐-‐up area at the tent in front of the team/athlete entrance (see map) (NOT AT STADIUM). The packets will include meet information, athlete’s numbers, pins, relay cards and coach’s pass. Packet pick-‐-‐-‐up times will be posted on our web site at a later date. ▪ SPIKES Only ¼ in pyramids will be allowed on the track and runway surfaces. No needles or Christmas tree spikes. All spikes need to be tagged at the spike inspection tent before any athlete can compete in his/her event. Spikes will be tag checked before entering the track and non-‐-‐-‐tagged spikes will not be allowed on track. ▪ ENTRY INTO TRACK & FIELD STADIUM Athletes: All athletes will enter through the competitor’s entrance on the far side of the stadium (opposite the grandstand) No athlete will be allowed to enter the track from the stadium side. Coaches: Coaches passes will admit coaches into the stadium. High school coaches will be given 4 coaches passes if more than 6 athletes are competing. Less than 6 will be given 2 passes. ▪ WARM-‐-‐-‐UP Competition Days: All athletes will warm-‐-‐-‐up on the practice track next to the stadium. Thursday-‐-‐-‐April 23th the track will be open from 12PM to 5PM. All spikes will need to be inspected. ▪ CHECK-‐-‐-‐IN PROCEDURE Athletes need to check into the Clerk of Course (large Blue & White tent between practice track and stadium) a minimum of one (1) hour prior to their scheduled event time. ▪ ATHLETES’S BIB NUMBERS Athlete’s bibs will be worn on the front for all events except the pole vault. ▪ COACHING No coaches will be allowed inside the fenced track & field area. A coach’s box will be set-‐-‐-‐up for the pole vault and only coaches with proper wrist ban will be allowed in this area. Long and triple jump will have their coach’s box outside the fence next to the event area. ▪ FIELD EVENT CONDUCT LJ/TJ/SP/D/J/HT competitors will receive three (3) attempts with the top nine (9) athletes advancing to the final, to receive three (3) additional attempts. Each field event athlete must have a legal mark to receive additional attempts. HJ/PV will be contested in continuous flights. ▪ The no false start rule will be in effect. ▪ ▪ ENTRY NOTES – High School and Collegiate ▪ High schools can only enter 3 athletes per running events and 2 per field events. ▪ Athletes representing high schools must be eligible according to the rules, which govern the athletic participation of their schools; i.e., FHSAA Athletes representing colleges/universities must be eligible according to the rules, which govern the athletic participation of their schools; i.e., NCAA, NAIA, or NJCAA NCAA rules will prevail ▪ TRAINING AREA A large Red and White tent will be set up near the start finish line for athletic trainers. ▪ AWARDS Awards will be giving to event winners only. FALSE STARTS CLUB & UNATTACED INFORMATION ▪ Open competitors must be 18 years of age or older on March 27, 2015. Unattached athletes may not wear a school uniform. ▪ ENTRIES ON DIRECTATHLETICS.COM ONLY ▪ Late entries not accepted! IMPLEMENT WEIGH-‐-‐-‐IN Athletes must weigh-‐-‐-‐in all throwing implements at the track stadium (follow signs to weigh-‐-‐-‐in). Implements which are not certified as official will be confiscated, and released following the competition. Opening heights – High School – Collegiate Women: High Jump Pole Vault Girls: High Jump Pole Vault Men: 1.42m 2.74m High Jump Pole Vault Based on entries Based on entries Boys: High Jump Pole Vault 1.73m 4.11m Based on entries Based on entries